Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown

by Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1955
  • Label: EmArcy
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 50:06
  • Community rating: 4.55/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded on 16 and 18 December 1954 at Fine Sound Studios in New York, with Bob Shad producing and Ernie Wilkins arranging, the album pairs Vaughan with Clifford Brown in their only collaboration. The band is completed by Paul Quinichette, Herbie Mann, Jimmy Jones, Joe Benjamin and Roy Haynes. Vaughan called it her favorite among her own recordings, the LP first appeared under her name alone, and it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

Genres

Descriptors: female-vocals, ballad, melodic, virtuosic, sophisticated, vocal

Tracklist

  1. Lullaby Of Birdland (4:00)
  2. April In Paris (6:18)
  3. He's My Guy (4:13)
  4. Jim (5:54)
  5. You're Not The Kind (4:44)
  6. Embraceable You (4:51)
  7. I'm Glad There Is You (5:11)
  8. September Song (5:46)
  9. It's Crazy (5:06)
  10. Lullaby Of Birdland (3:58)

Credits

  • Sarah Vaughan - primary artist, vocals
  • Clifford Brown - primary artist, trumpet
  • Ernie Wilkins - arranged by, conductor
  • Kiyoshi Koyama - research [tape vault]
  • Michael Bourne - liner notes
  • William Claxton - photography by
  • Bob Shad - producer [original sessions]
  • B. Y. Forster - written-by
  • George Shearing - written-by
  • Kurt Weill - written-by
  • Maxwell Anderson - written-by
  • Jimmy Dorsey - written-by
  • Paul Madeira Mertz - written-by
  • Irving Mills - written-by
  • Will Hudson - written-by
  • Caesar Petrillo - written-by
  • Edward Ross - written-by
  • Nelson Shawn - written-by
  • Don Raye - written-by
  • Gene DePaul - written-by
  • E.Y. Harburg - written-by
  • Vernon Duke - written-by
  • Dorothy Fields - written-by
  • Richard Rodgers - written-by
  • George & Ira Gershwin - written-by

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